Summary

In Chapter 15, The Nose, Juan Diego makes the short flight from Manila to Tagbilaran City, Bohol, where he's supposed to meet up with Clark French. He thinks back to a conversation with Edward and Pepe in which he had questioned the church's ability to make sexual decisions when the church leaders abstained from sex. One day, Juan Diego and Lupe were in the church when Esperanza got a ladder to dust the Virgin Mary statue. She was flicking the duster over the statue's nose when Lupe began shouting. Juan Diego saw the statue's eyes become angry and Esperanza fell. Lupe insisted that Esperanza died before she even fell and that was borne out by an autopsy.

The statue's nose was broken off though no one could figure out how that happened. Juan Diego surreptitiously put the nose in his pocket and denied knowing...